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Vancouver Board of Trade talks Energy East pipeline with New Brunswick premier

New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant is touting the TransCanada project as "safe" and "sustainable" despite the corporation's questionable record of pipeline accidents.
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Reports from the Energy Battlegrounds raised $80K in 30 days: THANK YOU!

Here's a look at what was accomplished last year thanks to crowd-funded journalism. Thanks to your Kickstarter support, we'll do much more this year.
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Please pledge! "Reports from the Energy Battlegrounds" Kickstarter ends Sunday

A top investigative reporter, a veteran Ottawa reporter. That's what you'll get by backing National Observer's Kickstarter campaign!
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Awe-inspiring, epic, powerful... Canada

Hot temperatures. Brutal conflicts. A new publication from ground zero of climate change.

Media and Democracy Days: three documentaries on Friday evening to stimulate debate

Friday night at Media Democracy Days 2014, a stimulating line-up of films will be screened, including Vancouver Observer - Tar Sands Reporting Project's TarNation, Richochet's interview with Glenn...
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Independent journalism pays off with truth and results

I was delighted this week to see an e-mail from the people at Kickstarter saying,  “we really love your project!”  Staff at the crowdfunding website said they had chosen our Tar Sands...
Susan Ellard

Kelowna oncologist wants an energy strategy for Canada based on reality of climate change

Susan Ellard has explored the issues surrounding climate change and found a difference between what you know... and what you think you know.
Christianne Wilhelmson

Christianne Wilhelmson wants politicians to take bolder steps toward a future in balance with nature

As the executive director of the Georgia Strait Alliance, a citizen's group dedicated to protecting the coastal waters of the Strait of Georgia, Christianne Wilhelmson thinks a lot about how to...

Eli Pivnick sees a future with less jet-setting, more local living

Eli Pivnick has faith in resilient local communities to create a future that doesn't depend on fossil fuels.

Guy Dauncey gets ready for a "solar tsunami"

Writer and climate change speaker Guy Dauncey says the future will be in solar energy. First in a series brought to you by The Tar Sands Reporting Project's crowd-sourced funders.